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Provide a mechanism to retrieve basic status information about the device, including the "supported" flag indicating whether SED-OPAL is supported. The information returned is from the various feature descriptors received during the discovery0 step, and so this ioctl does nothing more than perform the discovery0 step and then save the information received. See "struct opal_status" and OPAL_FL_* bits for the status information currently returned. This is necessary to be able to check whether a device is OPAL enabled, set up, locked or unlocked from userspace programs like systemd-cryptsetup and libcryptsetup. Right now we just have to assume the user 'knows' or blindly attempt setup/lock/unlock operations. Signed-off-by: Douglas Miller <dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Scott Bauer <sbauer@plzdonthack.me> Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816140713.84893-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.